Quotes about Scorn
They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.
- Habakkuk 1:10
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
- Matthew 27:39
And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.
- Luke 23:11
when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13
T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).
- Peter Kreeft
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
- Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.
- Theodore Roosevelt
She had scornful grey eyes, a skin like white honey, and a full mouth with a slightly lifted upper lip, that did not know whether it was raised in scorn of all men, or out of eagerness to be kissed.
- DH Lawrence
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
- Walt Whitman
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
- Oscar Wilde
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!
- John Newton